Irish Youth Sailing News. Regattas, Juniors, Training, Courses, Skills
Local Ace Luke Simpson is Topper 5.3 Traveller Winner at County Antrim Yacht Club
18th May 2023 Topper
Twenty-one Topper dinghy sailors from as far away as Dun Laoghaire and Sligo Yacht Club turned out for last weekend’s Topper Traveller hosted by County Antrim Yacht Club on the north shore of Belfast Lough. The sailors raced in two…
Lough Ree Yacht Club were host to the fun, friendships and team-building experience by the Irish Optimist Dinghy Association of Ireland (IODAI) Development Squad and the U12 team last weekend when the teams came together for the first time to…
Ballyholme Sailors Enjoy Excellent Results at Royal Irish Hosted RS Feva Easterns
14th May 2023 Royal Irish Yacht Club
The long trail from Ballyholme to the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire for the RS Feva East Coast Championships was worthwhile for the three crews from the North who dominated the result sheet, with the Ridout family taking…
Royal St. George Yacht Club ILCA Ace Fiachra McDonnell is Seventh in Europa Cup Event
10th May 2023 Laser
Royal St. George Yacht Club youth ILCA ace Fiachra McDonnell has finished seventh in Italy's Eurilca Europa Cup. The Irish champion, who has had a busy start to 2023, earned the ILCA 6 male division result after seven races in…
The mixed crew of Alana Twomey and Chris Bateman of the host club clinched the 29er Southern Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club. The Crosshaven pair's one-point overnight lead was swallowed up when they posted a third in the first…
Royal Cork Yacht Club's Alana Twomey and Chris Bateman have a one-point lead after four races sailed at the Irish 29er Southerns Championships in Cork Harbour. Royal Cork skiff sailors also hold second and third places overnight in the 11-boat fleet. A…
The intensely-fought multi-race Youth Sailing Nationals at Howth in April saw many classes go right to the wire, with only a point or two separating the leaders after the championship concluded. But in the “Senior Junior” class, the large-fleet ILCA…
British Sailing Team Seek Female Athletes in new Crew4Gold Talent Search
26th April 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
The British Sailing Team and British Youth Sailing have joined forces to launch Crew4Gold – a ground-breaking new talent search to discover female athletes capable of becoming Olympic medal-winning 49erFX crews. The 49erFX is the women's two-person, high-performance skiff at…
UCD's Tom Higgins Receives Match Race Invitation to Governors Cup, California
26th April 2023 Team Racing
Dun Laoghaire helmsman Tom Higgins has become the first Irish sailor to receive an invitation to skipper an entry in the prestigious youth Governors' Cup Match Racing Championship event in California. Royal St George's Higgins is an Ad Astra sports…
University College Dublin are the First Irish Team to Win British University Opens in 53 Years
22nd April 2023 W M Nixon
It’s beginning to look as though University College Dublin is a sailing university with a work and studies problem. As the pressure builds in all departments ashore and afloat, they’re piling on the pace in the team and match racing…
When the weather plays ball, the kids enjoy sailing! The two weeks of the Easter break may have been cold and split by the last (we hope) storm of the season, but they certainly deliver some great sailing for our…
Royal St George Yacht Club's Training Programmes Bear Fruit at the Youth Sailing Nationals in Howth
19th April 2023 RStGYC
Dun Laoghaire's Royal St George has worked hard to create a coaching programme to support our youth sailors, and it's great to see it bear fruit with great results at the recent Youth Sailing Nationals at Howth Yacht Club writes club sailing…
Northern Ireland Dinghy Sailor Success at Howth's Youth Sailing Nationals
18th April 2023 Youth Sailing
Whether it be football or sailing, the people of Larne in County Antrim have plenty to celebrate, for the football club won the Irish League Cup on 15th April and East Antrim Boat Club’s ILCA 6 sailor, Tom Coulter began…
The continuing vitality of Irish yacht clubs competing at the Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club is reflected in the fact that some club acronyms overlap, consequently in previous reports of the Topper racing, we had Cormac Byrne…
Rocco Wright won a home waters victory at the Investwise Youth Sailing National Championships in Howth on Sunday. Wright took the ILCA 6 Youth National Champion title by a clear margin of ten nett points after ten races sailed across…
O’Shaughnessy and Spain Take 29er Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club
16th April 2023 29er
A Cork-Dublin partnership won the 29er Investwise Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club on Sunday. The double-handed skiff title was won by reigning Irish 29er class national champions Ben O’Shaughnessy (Royal Cork YC) and Ethan Spain of the (National…